Process of making printing surfaces



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ATTORNEY Patented May 24, 1932 PATENT OFFICE JOSEPH DYER, OF ATLANTIC BEACH, NEW YORK PROCESS OF MAKING PRINTING SURFACES Application filed November 25, 1930. Serial No. 498,046.

This invention relates to improvement in the art of making printing surfaces by photography or for making photographic plates or films bearing patterns which are, in

turn, transferred upon printing surfaces, and it relates specifically to means for ruling certain areas or grounds with a single line screen e'lfect in such manner that in the pattern the screen will not cross the boundary lines of figures, as, for example,'leaves or petals of flowers, but will lie within said boundary lines or outlines. The result is that the outlines of the pattern are kept sharp in every detail, whereas, if the screen lines cross the pattern figure boundaries, the latter would be sawtooth in effect with surfaces lacking sharpness in the printing. 7

The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in

which Fig. 1 is a plan view illustrating a positive photographic plate of the pattern.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the printing surface desired to be produced from said positive.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective View of a portion of the positive plate shown in Fig. l (cut on the line 3-3), the latter having applied thereto a diffusion plate and a difiused negative.

Fig. 4. is a view in edge elevation of the diffused negative in contact with a line screen and a sensitized film or plate.

Fig. 5 is a View similar to Fig. 4: showing film after the latter has received an exposure from the diffused negative and line screen.

In practicing my method of obtaining a single line screen within desired figures of the pattern, or as a ground, and at the same time maintain the line screen a pre-determined distance within the outline of-the pattern figures or beyond the boundary of the figures when the screen is used as a background, I photograph the original copy according to the dry plate or wet plate method, whichever appears to be more suitable at the time according to regular photographic practice, and make a contact positive from .6 the original negative. For purposes of illusthe positive plate applied to the sensitized.

tration, I have shown such a positive in Fig. 1, the pattern for the purposes of simplicity, being a simple group of star and crescent forms v The second step following production of the positive, is to diffuse a second negative from the positive by placing the two members .out of contact either by meansof glass or one has been so spaced from the negative plate 3,

that the light rays indicated at a have passed under the device4, which normally would bar or shield the light so that its printing area has been reduced from the normal lines I 126 to the more restricted lines 00., It will thus be seen that the image of each dark area .onthe positive will be reduced in are on the diffused negative.

After the diffused negative has been produced by the method above described, it is placed with a line screen in register with a sensitized plate or film. In Fig. ithe line screen is indicated at 5 and the sensitized plateor film at 6. The light rays will pass through the pattern areas of the diflused negative and will pass to the sensitized film via the line screen so that in the sensitized film the restricted areas of the diffused negative will be ruled by the screen.

The third and final light exposure of the process is to obtain a second exposure of the sensitized film or plate by means of the positive 1. Referring to the lines 0 and b, it will be seen that screen lines have been produced on the sensitized film within the boundary of the lines 0 and the second exposure from the positive plate 1 will reproduce the device 4 in its full area upon the sensitized film surrounding the screen 9 and the margins of the device 4 will lie beyond the screen a pre-determined and uniform distance at all points.

, The figures in the drawings are for pur- N poses of illustration only and intended to show in a simple and schematic manner, the operation of the process when it is desired to fill in certain areas of the design with a line screen, the method to be the same, however, when other thanruled effects are desired, as, for example, the ground or the figures are to compose dots or minute elements of any desired form. A

It will be understood that in the application of the method, the sensitized member 6 may be a metallic printing member having a sensitized'surface which when developed is transformed by the usual etching methods into a printing surface.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows p v 1. In the art of making printing surfaces comprising designs, a process which consists in producing a transparent reproduction of the design, diifusing a photographic negative of reduced size from the transparent reproduction by placing thereproduction and negative material a distance-apart and subjecting the same to light, developing the negative material, then exposing a sensitized sheet in register with the diffused negative and a screen, removing the diffused negative and screen,.and making a second exposure of the sensitized sheet through the transparent reproduction in substantially unreduced form overlying the first exposure.

2. In the art of making printing surfaces comprising designs, a process which consists in producing a positive reproduction of the design, producing a reduced size diifused photographic negative of the. positive by placing the positive and the negative material a distance apart and subjecting the same to light, then exposing a sensitized meium in register with the diffused negative material and a screen, removing the difl'used negative and screen, and making a second exposure of the sensitized medium through the positive in suhstantially unreduced form over the first expbsure.

3. In the art of making printing surfaces comprising designs, a process of photographically producing a ground fon the design but spaced from the outlines of the latter which consists in producing a transparent reproduction ofthe design, diffusing a reduced size image of the transparent reproduction by placing the reproduction and a sensitive'medium a distance apart and subjecting the same to light, then exposing a second sensitized medium in register with I the first-named medium and a screen bearin the configuration employed for the ground, first-named medium and screen and making a second exposure ofthe second sensitized medium through the transparent reproduction in substantially ,unreduced form overlying the first exposure.

4. In the art of making printin surfaces comprising designs, a process whic consists in producinga reproduction of the design, exposing a sensitized plate in register with the reproduction of design in such manner that the-design is exposed upon the plate in reduced form, photographically reproducing said reduced design in said reduced form upon a sensitized plate with an interposed screen, and subjecting said plate to printing from the first-named plate in substantially unreduced form overlying said reduced design and without a screen.

5. In the art of making printin surfaces comprising designs, a process whic consists in producing a reduced size negative of the design, printing said reduced design negative without substantial change of size upon a sensitized plate with an interposed screen, and printing said sensitized late with the original design in unreduced orm overlying the first printing.

6. In the art of making printing surfaces comprising designs, a process which consists in producing a reproduction of the design in reduced form, exposing a sensitized medium JOSEPH DYER. 

